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MEMBERS SUGGEST INCREASED STAFF. When the Internal Affairs Department's votes woro under consideration yesterday, Mr. E. J. Howard (Christ, ohurch South} asked .that the staff of the Government Statistician's officejdiould bo strengthened. The office had very 'important duties and it ought to have the services of as many experts as were required.. Mr. J. M'Combs (Lyttelton) said that Now Zealand's Statistical -Department was not_ able to supply information that was nvailablo in other countries. It provided figures regarding tho cost of living, but it did not follow increments of wages. The staff was not largo enough. For its size, it did an extraordinarily large amount pf work. An attempt to run the country without facts and figures was like an attempt to run a business without books. The Hon. G. J. Anderson said that the Government Statistician was recognised by authorities in other countries to bo oiie of tho foremost experts in the world. The system he had adopted was in opcr.nlion in Australia, and was being adopted in England.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 41, 12 November 1920, Page 7
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172MORE STATISTICS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 41, 12 November 1920, Page 7
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